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Apple reveals animated Beatles record albums ad for iTunes

, Dec 10th 2011 Discuss [0]

Without a doubt this should have been the advertisement video Apple should have used when it was first announced the iTunes would be making the historic movie to carry The Beatles music catalogue. Instead we've got it here at the end of 2011, and we'll take it! Not only do we get to dive in and through the greatest album covers ever printed on 12 inches of cardboard, we get to experience each of them in a warped and folded way anyone with two eyes and the ability to see can appreciate. On the whole, this appears very much to be a renewed push for recognition of the several different ways one can experience The Beatles through Apple's iTunes store. Read The Full Story

Lemur multitouch music controller iPad app finally a reality

, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [4]

This week the folks at liine have released an app version of their legendary multitouch MIDI/OSC controller Lemur for the iOS platform on the iPad and iPad 2. The physical version of the platform is used by such massive musical artists as Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, Deadmau5, and more, and with the iPad having been release just a BIT after the original Lemur's 2004 introduction to the public, it's time the whole world had the chance to use this fantastical interface for the creation of block rocking beats. Ten years of development on this project converted now to a single app for iPad - seem like a winning combination to you? Read The Full Story

iTunes Rewind 2011 goes live: top apps, movies, and music listed

, Dec 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week Apple has released their annual best of the year list titled "iTunes Rewind 2011" this year showing off the best selling and best performing apps, games, movies, and music over the past 12 months. Top places for sales are separate from voted categories like Game of the Year, App of the Year, and more classic categories for media usually categorized as such, like Best Comedy, Best Romance, and Best Breakout Comedy. Can you guess which shows won what? How about which apps sold the most for the iPhone -- how about for the iPad? Discover a lovely sampling here and now! Read The Full Story

ESRB “T for Teens” ratings system dismissed by iOS and Android

, Nov 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

What very well could have been the next generation of rating content on a scale that disallows kids from playing the most violent and inappropriate games by their parents has essentially been shot dead before it was active by none other than the two largest mobile app providers on the planet, Apple and Google. While there certainly are other holders of the keys to the kingdom when it comes to application stores for smartphones, tablets, and everything in-between, the CTIA Mobile Application Rating System developed by the ESRB and announced this week will find a hard time holding sway when it only appears on a small cross-section of apps in the wild.

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iTunes Match launches officially, here’s how to get it

, Nov 14th 2011 Discuss [5]

This week the kind folks at Apple have granted the masses access to their iTunes Match program, one that will allow users to subscribe for $25 USD a year and match up their physical music collection with the iCloud, giving them access wherever they go to their entire collection. You the user can get access to iTunes Match by downloading a simple software update to your iTunes application via the iTunes download page you’d normally use to do so. While this program had originally been intended for mid-October, several beta tests throughout the month have yielded a final release date of now, now being of course mid-November 2011.

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iTunes 10.5 with iCloud available for download now

, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

Today we get our first glimpse of iCloud in action via iTunes 10.5, released one day ahead of the Wednesday launch of both iOS 5 and iCloud itself. This update to iTunes gives you features such as iTunes in the Cloud and wireless syncing of your iDevices via Wi-fi, and it’s available for download for both Mac and Windows PC computers today. The whole shebang drops this week, day by day, and we’ll all be living in the cloud by the end of the month!

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Apple Ends TV Episode Rentals, Sticks with Purchases

, Aug 26th 2011 Discuss [5]

If you're one of the 10 people in the world that actually simply rented a bunch of television shows from iTunes over the last year or so, you're going to need a tissue. Apple has decided to pull the plug on all TV show rentals from iTunes, leaving only two options for the viewing of TV-related media: the purchase of individual episodes or the "Season Pass" for a year of your favorite show. This should come as no shock to the public, but does point toward a couple of future options for Apple as far as how they handle television content, the first being the relatively new "iTunes in the Cloud" service we first saw a few months ago. Read The Full Story

Apple’s New App Store Rules Impact Amazon’s Kindle App

, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [41]

Apple's new app store subscription plan, specifying that Apple will take a 30% cut of all content sold within apps, will also affect Amazon's Kindle app when used on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. It will also impact other booksellers selling through apps on Apple products. Publishers and content sellers have to remove any links within their apps to outside-the-App Store purchasing options. This means that Amazon must remove the "Shop in the Kindle Store" link that it currently provides on its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps. Read The Full Story

Apple Products to No Longer Be Sold at Costco Membership Warehouse

, Dec 9th 2010 Discuss [13]

Ruh roh! It appears that because of reasons surrounding the facts that while Costco has carried iPods and iTunes cards from their retail locations for quite a while now, Apple has never allowed them to sell Apple items on their webpage (like other retailers can) and Costco didn't gain distribution rights for the iPad, Costco's pulling the plug. Costco is said to be the third largest retailer and the largest membership warehouse dealer in the USA. Them stopping sales of Apple products completely is almost certainly going to be a stinger in Apple's side. Read The Full Story

Apple Proves People WILL Buy The Beatles Music from iTunes, Lots of it

, Nov 23rd 2010 Discuss [3]

Over the past few days there's been talk about how in many cases, The Beatles can be purchased in physical form (CDs, for example) for much cheaper than they can be purchase over at iTunes. Case in point: this guy who found he could buy The Beatles box set for $100 in physical form or for $149 as a download on iTunes. Despite this, and despite the fact that, wait, doesn't everyone already own all The Beatles music?, Apple sold two million songs or 450,000 albums in a week (according to Billboard.) Apple noted that the top album so far has been Abbey Road and the top song has been Here Comes the Sun (due in no small part more than likely to the new Apple/Beatles TV ad spot. Read The Full Story

Skype Updated for iOS4

, Jul 21st 2010 Discuss [1]

The applications just keep on coming for iOS4, and there's no slowing them down. Today's app is one you might have heard of: Skype. Yep, that's right, one of the largest VoIP providers out there just got a brand new version for Apple's shiny new mobile Operating System, and it brings with it a plethora of changes and features. Dig in after the break to find out just what they are. Read The Full Story

iPad Apps Hit the iTunes Store

, Apr 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

So, here they are. We've already seen them a couple times, still images along with it, but Apple has gone ahead and released the floodgates. That's right, if you were looking to catch a glimpse of what's to come for the iPad in the applications front, you can go ahead and head into the iTunes Store, and knock yourself out. Read The Full Story
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